It all started with Iman, a native of Somalia, who has risen to the modeling Olympus and has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar more than once. And Yves Saint Laurent even dedicated the collection “African Queen” to her.
Naomi Campbell became not only a fashion icon of the 90s, but also the highest paid black model in the world. Naomi became the first model to appear on the covers of top glossy magazines in France, and her colleagues and friends Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington almost abandoned the Dolce & Gabbana show: their condition was Campbell’s participation in it. For her eccentric behavior, she was nicknamed the Black Panther and is still called that. Despite the fact that the model is already 49 years old, she actively takes part in the show of designers and happily defiles side by side with young beauties, creating healthy competition for them.
Puerto Rican Joan smalls at the beginning of her career she starred for Nordstrom catalogs and participated in the presentations of fashion brands. But, having changed the modeling agency, she received an invitation to the Givenchy show, and more recently she became one of the few black Chanel models that everyone dreams of.
For more dark-skinned models who conquered the fashionable Olympus, see the gallery.